Holder



Jul 22 1924.

A-. GREEN HOLDER Filed New. 6, 1919 ATTORNEY NVENTOR w a w Patented July 22, 1924.

UNITE,

1 HOLDER,

Application filed. November To all whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, \VILLIA A. GREEN, a subject of Great Britain, residing at Toronto, in the Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. i

This invention relates to dishes comprising holders and paper linings therefor.

One of the objects of the invention is the provision of a practical service receptacle in which ice cream and the like may be conveniently served in a cleanly and sanitary manner.

Another object of the invention is the provision of an eflicient paper blank capable of being readily shaped into an elongated dish lining adapted to hold ice cream and the like.

The invention accordingly consists injhe features of construction, combinations of elements and arrangement of parts which. will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter described and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the following claims.

In the accompanying drawing forming" part of this specification and wherein similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views, a

Figure l is a. side elevation of a holder and a paper dish lining operatively asso eiated therewith;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the holder;

Fig. 3 is a view of a paper blank from which the paper dish lining may be formed; and

Fig. 4 is a transverse section through the holder showing certain dish lining stops on the edge of the holder.

Referring now more particularly to Fig. 1, there is illustrated a metallic holder come posed of a base 1 and a body 2. The numeral 3 indicates a paper dish lining seatedin the body of the holder. 7

In the present embodimentthe base and the body of the holder are made of thin metal pressed into shape and brazed or} otherwise connected together at the line 4. The body of the holder is shaped to provide the elongated concavity comprised between the end walls 5 and the side walls G the and n i s cur g t ans er e y of h 6, 1919. Serial N0. 336,222.

tral longitudinal line, and the entire concavity is smooth and free "from sharp angles so that it may be readily cleaned. Preterably also, the bottom of the concavity inclines gently downwardly from the central line? toward the apices 8 where the walls 5 and 6 merge therewith. The numeral 9 indicates an opening which communicates wit-h the hollow base portion. At this point it may be observed that the hollow base portion 1 is open at the bottom.

The opposite sides 6, 6, of the holder each have inwardly extending stops 9 and 10 to cooperate with the edge of the paper dish lining and retain the latter in position. As illustrated, these stops are at the end of the walls of the concavity and may be formed by turning inwardly a portion of the metal of such edges. Between the stops and the ends of the body of the holder the edges of the holder may be cut away, as illustrated,to give shapeliness to the body and to economize in metal.

The blank for the dish lining is illustrated in Fig. 3. As shown, it is a generally elliptical sheet having at each end free overlapping-contiguous portions, as by longitudinally slitting at each end from its edges along the lines 11 to points 12 which are designedto rest adjacent the apicesfi, 8 of the" holder. The blank for the, dish lining is made of paper of some resiliency,

so that when the blank is pressed into the holder as hereinafter explained, free portions thereof, as the tongues, 13 and lit at each side of the slits 11, will be caused to overlap each other and lie against the end walls 5 of the concavity of the body. The sides of the blank are inwardly recessed as indicated at 15 for engagement with the stops 9 and 10. In the blank illustrated the recesses 15 are rather sharply cut in the edge of the blank, but it is to be understood that the tulllateral edges of the blank may be curved inwardly and thereby provide such recesses. In operation, one of the flat blanks described may be selected from a pile at hand and placed over the, concavity in the body ofthe holder. By then pressing down at the points 12 the blank may be thrust into the concavity and seated therein, the cngii s 3 and automa ic ly ever walls and held in lapping as the points 12 on the blank are pressed towards the apices 8, 8 hereinbefore referred to. The operation of seating the blank in the holder will cause the opposite sides of the blank to assume position be neath the stops 9 and 10, whereupon the paper dish lining and holder will be in operative position ready for use with the blank bent across the central line. Longitudinal movement of the dish in the holder will be restrained to a suflicient extent by the edges of the paper blank which provide shoulders 16, as it were, at each side of the stops 9 and 10. Also the tendency of the blank to unfold is restrained by the stops.

Thus by the above described construction are accomplished, among others, the objects hereinbefore referred to.

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawing shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that thelanguage used in the following claims is intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein described and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to by Letters Patent, is

1. In a device of the character described, a holder including an elongated concavity theend walls of which curve transversely of the holder, the side walls having. inwardly extending stops, in combination with a resilient paper dish lining seated in said concavity with its edges beneath said stops, said dish lining comprising free overlap-ping contiguous portions lying against the end position by engagement therewith.

2. In a device of the character described,

aholder including an elongated concavity the end walls of which curve transversely of the holder, the side walls having inwardly extending stops, in combination with a resilient paper dish lining seated in said concavity w th its edges beneath said stops, said dish lining comprising free overlapping "tongues lying against the end walls of said concavity, said dish lining being slit from its edge at opposite ends to provide said resilient paper dish lining seated in said concavity with its edge beneath said stops, said dish lining comprising overlapping tongues lying against the end walls of said concavity, said dish lining being slit from its edge at opposite ends to provide said tongues, the lateral edges of said dish lining providing shoulders at each side of said stops.

l. A paper blank for dishes including a generally elliptical sheet longitudinally slitted at each end from its edge, the opposite sides of said sheet being inwardly re' cessed.

5. ,A holder, for paper dishes and the ,like,

comprising an elongated concavity the side and end walls of which each incline downwardly toward the center of the holder, the inclination of the end walls being steeper than that of the side walls, the end walls curving transversely of the holder, the side walls having inwardly extending dish stops,

the bottom wall of said concavity inclining gently downwardly, in longitudinally opposite directions, from the central portion.

6. A holder, for paper dishes and the like, comprising an elongated concavity the side and end walls of which each incline down- I wardly toward the center of the holder, the inclination of the end walls being steeper than that of the side walls, the end walls curving transversely of the holder, the side walls having inwardly extending dish stops, the bottom wall of said concavity inclining gently downwardly, in longitudinally. opposite directions, from the central portion and merging into both the sidev and end walls.

7. In a device of the character described, in combination, a holder including an elongated concavity the side and end walls of which incline downwardly toward the center of the holder, the inclination of the end walls being steeper than that of the side walls, the end walls curving transversely of the holder, the edge of said holder having inwardly extending stops, and a resilient paper dish lining removablv seated in and generally conforming to said concavity with its edges beneath said stops, said dish lining including integral portions freely overlap- 'ping and lying against said end walls of said concavity.

8. In a device of the character described, in combination, a holder including an elongated concavity the side and end walls of which incline downwardly toward the center of the holder, the inclination of the end walls being steeperlthan that of the side walls, the end walls curving transversely of the holder, the edge of said holder having inwardly extending stops, and a resilient paper dish lining removablv seated in and generally conforming to said concavity with its edges beneath said stops, said dish lining including integral portions freely overlapping and lying against said end walls of said concavity, the edges of said dish lining hav ing shoulders at each side of said stops.

9. In a device of the character described, in combination, a holder having walls and a bottom provided with an elevation intermediate said walls, a resilient dish lining for said holder tensioned across said elevation, and means opposed to said tensioning for holding said dish lining in position.

10. In a device of the character described, in combination, a holder having walls, and a bottom provided with an elevation intermediate said walls, a resilient dish lining tending normally to assume a flat shape and having a divided edge portion providing tongues, said dish lining being bent across said elevation, said tongues being overlapped 20 against the resiliency of said dish lining and held in such relationship by engagement with said wall.

11. In a device of the character described, in combination, a holder having a cavity, a wall for said holder, stops on said wall, a resilient dish lining in said cavity tending normally to assume a flat form and having a divided edge forming tongues, said tongues having overlapping portions adjacent said wall tending under the resiliency of said lining to move to unlapped position, said stops and said wall constituting the sole means for restraining the tendency of said lining to assume a flat shape and of said tongues to move to unlapped position.

12. A holder having an elongated concavity with the walls merging smoothly into each other, stops at opposite points on the walls, and a resilient paper lining in the concavity with its edges beneath the stops,

the lining including overlapping contiguous portions lying against the end walls and so held by the resiliency of the lining.

hi'testimony whereof I aflix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM A. GREEN. WVitnesses 2 R. F. MACK, N. G. LEISHMAN. 

